diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
index 750401f9134190a210c8c24089a08ca9cb16559c..15dfce708ebf6ec3263ac0d66ff2b6f3a57471d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ input driver:
 GPIO support
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 ACPI 5 introduced two new resources to describe GPIO connections: GpioIo
-and GpioInt. These resources are used be used to pass GPIO numbers used by
+and GpioInt. These resources can be used to pass GPIO numbers used by
 the device to the driver. ACPI 5.1 extended this with _DSD (Device
 Specific Data) which made it possible to name the GPIOs among other things.